Santiago Paulet Leonardo is a guitarist from Madrid (Spain) born on April 1, 1980. At the age of 16 years old he learned his first chords on Spanish Guitar, and then he started to play Electric Guitar. Shortly after his friend Guillermo began to show some riffs and helped him to establish the basis for his technique as a guitarist.
He studied for 4 years in the music school La Factoría, the first modern music school in Spain, with Óscar Martín Pacho as a teacher of Guitar and Harmony. At that time he belonged to the progressive metal band Acid Rain and later formed his own progressive rock band, El Bufón de Lear, in which for the first time he spent all his creative effort at both musical as lyrical and scenic, doing performances with percussion and some theatrically, doing concerts, two of them in Localia TV and TVE. Later he became a member of the Orchestra Banda Sur in Pinto (Madrid).
At the end of his Master in Music Education studies at Complutense University Of Madrid, he traveled to Hollywood (CA) to study at Musicians Institute (www.mi.edu), one of the most prestigious schools of modern music in the world that has benefited from teachers like Scott Henderson (with who he attended some classes), Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big), Jeniffer Batten (Michael Jackson), Frank Gambale, Robben Ford, Carl Verheyen (Supertramp), Jeff Kollman and so on, where he got his Certificate in Guitar Performance and expanded his knowledge of harmony and composition.
He was guitarist in the Geiser Band orchestra of Ciudad Real during 2008 and member of the choir Luigi Bocherini of Boadilla del Monte (Madrid).
He has been working with the saxophonist Walter Geromet and has been subdirector and member of the Walter' Sax Big Band (www.wsbigband.com) and guitarist and singer for the band "Mano Lenta - Tributo a Clapton".
His song "From Madrid To Hollywood" has been semifinalist of the Yamaha Guitar Hero.
In july 2010 he was teacher of electric and classical guitar and improvisation in the Euridyce's Course in Levico Terme, Trento (Italy) with teachers such as Daniela Pisano (flute), Primo Boralli (clarinet) and Walter Geromet (saxophone)